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    Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression
    Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression
    Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression
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    Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression

    By Edgar Saltus

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Oscar Wilde - Edgar Saltus

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Oscar Wilde, by Edgar Saltus

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      Title: Oscar Wilde

      An Idler's Impression

      Author: Edgar Saltus

      Release Date: June 17, 2010 [EBook #32849]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OSCAR WILDE ***

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      OSCAR WILDE

      An Idler's Impression

      BY

      Edgar Saltus

      CHICAGO

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      1917

      Copyright 1917

      by

      Edgar Saltus

      f this first edition of Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression, by Edgar Saltus, there have been printed four hundred and seventy-four copies, and the type distributed. No second edition will be made. The autographed copies were all subscribed for before publication.

      The edition consists of

      49 copies on Inomachi vellum, in full binding, each copy autographed by the author. Numbered from 1 to 49 inclusive.

      100 copies on Inomachi vellum, in three-quarters binding. Numbered from 50 to 149 inclusive.

      325 copies on Fabriano hand-made paper, in boards. Numbered from 150 to 474 inclusive.

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      Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression

      OSCAR WILDE

      ears ago, in a Paris club, one man said to another: Well, what's up? The other shook a paper: "There is only one genius in

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